"comprendre" meaning in French

See comprendre in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Verb

IPA: /kɔ̃.pʁɑ̃dʁ/ Audio: Fr-comprendre.ogg
Etymology: Inherited from Old French, from Latin comprehendere. Etymology templates: {{glossary|Inherited}} Inherited, {{inh|fr|fro|-|||g=|g2=|g3=|id=|lit=|nocat=|pos=|sc=|sort=|tr=|ts=}} Old French, {{inh+|fr|fro|-}} Inherited from Old French, {{inh|fr|la|comprehendō|comprehendere}} Latin comprehendere Head templates: {{fr-verb}} comprendre Inflection templates: {{fr-conj-auto}} Forms: no-table-tags [table-tags], comprendre [infinitive], avoir + past participle [infinitive, multiword-construction], comprenant [gerund, participle, present], ayant + past participle [gerund, multiword-construction, participle, present], compris [participle, past], comprends [first-person, indicative, present, singular], comprends [indicative, present, second-person, singular], comprend [indicative, present, singular, third-person], comprenons [first-person, indicative, plural, present], comprenez [indicative, plural, present, second-person], comprennent [indicative, plural, present, third-person], comprenais [first-person, imperfect, indicative, singular], comprenais [imperfect, indicative, second-person, singular], comprenait [imperfect, indicative, singular, third-person], comprenions [first-person, imperfect, indicative, plural], compreniez [imperfect, indicative, plural, second-person], comprenaient [imperfect, indicative, plural, third-person], compris [first-person, historic, indicative, past, singular], compris [historic, indicative, past, second-person, singular], comprit [historic, indicative, past, singular, third-person], comprîmes [first-person, historic, indicative, past, plural], comprîtes [historic, indicative, past, plural, second-person], comprirent [historic, indicative, past, plural, third-person], comprendrai [first-person, future, indicative, singular], comprendras [future, indicative, second-person, singular], comprendra [future, indicative, singular, third-person], comprendrons [first-person, future, indicative, plural], comprendrez [future, indicative, plural, second-person], comprendront [future, indicative, plural, third-person], comprendrais [conditional, first-person, singular], comprendrais [conditional, second-person, singular], comprendrait [conditional, singular, third-person], comprendrions [conditional, first-person, plural], comprendriez [conditional, plural, second-person], comprendraient [conditional, plural, third-person], present indicative of avoir + past participle [indicative, multiword-construction, perfect, present], imperfect indicative of avoir + past participle [indicative, multiword-construction, pluperfect], past historic of avoir + past participle [anterior, indicative, multiword-construction, past], future of avoir + past participle [future, indicative, multiword-construction, perfect], conditional of avoir + past participle [conditional, multiword-construction, perfect], comprenne [first-person, present, singular, subjunctive], comprennes [present, second-person, singular, subjunctive], comprenne [present, singular, subjunctive, third-person], comprenions [first-person, plural, present, subjunctive], compreniez [plural, present, second-person, subjunctive], comprennent [plural, present, subjunctive, third-person], comprisse [first-person, imperfect, singular, subjunctive], comprisses [imperfect, second-person, singular, subjunctive], comprît [imperfect, singular, subjunctive, third-person], comprissions [first-person, imperfect, plural, subjunctive], comprissiez [imperfect, plural, second-person, subjunctive], comprissent [imperfect, plural, subjunctive, third-person], present subjunctive of avoir + past participle [multiword-construction, past, subjunctive], imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle [multiword-construction, pluperfect, subjunctive], comprends [imperative, second-person, singular], comprenons [first-person, imperative, plural], comprenez [imperative, plural, second-person], simple imperative of avoir + past participle [imperative, multiword-construction, second-person, singular], simple imperative of avoir + past participle [first-person, imperative, multiword-construction, plural], simple imperative of avoir + past participle [imperative, multiword-construction, plural, second-person]
  1. to understand, comprehend Categories (topical): Thinking
    Sense id: en-comprendre-fr-verb-7m2Bhsgt Disambiguation of Thinking: 67 11 13 9
  2. to comprise, include
    Sense id: en-comprendre-fr-verb-GvGpI3DP Categories (other): French entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of French entries with incorrect language header: 10 59 23 8
  3. (pronominal, reciprocal) to know each other (well); to get on well, to get along well Tags: pronominal, reciprocal
    Sense id: en-comprendre-fr-verb-M08Y46JF
  4. (pronominal) to be comprehensible or conceivable Tags: pronominal
    Sense id: en-comprendre-fr-verb-rtITBZDF
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: je ne comprends pas Related terms: compréhensible, compréhension, prendre

Inflected forms

Alternative forms

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          "english": "I understand now. (lit. I have understood now.)",
          "text": "J’ai compris maintenant.",
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        {
          "english": "He is too intelligent not to understand what you told him.",
          "text": "Il est trop intelligent pour ne pas comprendre ce que vous lui avez dit.",
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        {
          "english": "Did you understand?",
          "text": "Est-ce que vous avez bien compris ?",
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        {
          "english": "\"Do you understand what he's saying?\" \"I don't even understand what I'm saying.\"",
          "text": "« Est-ce que tu comprends ce qu’il dit ? » « Je ne comprends même pas ce que je dis moi. »",
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          "english": "You sure have company. I'll understand, don't worry, if you forget me. But if one day you do remember me, I'll certainly be around.",
          "ref": "2014, Paradis, Garde-le pour toi:",
          "text": "C’est sûr que t’as déjà de la compagnie. J’ comprendrai, t’inquiète, si tu m’oublies. Mais si un jour tu te rappelais de moi, je serais certainement pas loin d’ toi.",
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          "text": "J’ai compris maintenant.",
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          "english": "He is too intelligent not to understand what you told him.",
          "text": "Il est trop intelligent pour ne pas comprendre ce que vous lui avez dit.",
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          "text": "C’est sûr que t’as déjà de la compagnie. J’ comprendrai, t’inquiète, si tu m’oublies. Mais si un jour tu te rappelais de moi, je serais certainement pas loin d’ toi.",
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        "(pronominal) to be comprehensible or conceivable"
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This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable French dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2025-01-31 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2025-01-20 using wiktextract (bcd5c38 and 9dbd323). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.